Sketches and value scale were done first. It took me about 2 weeks during classes to stretch the canvas and prepare sketches etc and paint this.

Pages from my earlier Notebooks. Nudity, Nakedness and an Effete Sense of Morality. The Flight of the Peacock. The Indian Coffee House of Yore. S Murali select Paintings in Rupkatha Journal Volume 3 Number 2 September, 2011.

Thoughts about growth, transformation and letting go. That being human and being open to the pure grace of the world can be too much to bear at times? I will miss that little statue and the imaginary sanctuary its presence freely offered. I wonder if there is a cemetery in which to run in my new town. I wonder if there is another St. A Howling in the Woods. A Howling in the Woods.